§ Mr. ÖpikTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the(a) welfare and (b) specified risk materials regulations in other EU countries relative to those obtaining in the United Kingdom. [20248]
§ Mr. Morley(a) On animal welfare, the Member States of the European Union are obliged to give effect to the various requirements of EU law in relation to animal welfare on farm, in transit, at market and at slaughter, as well as to the provisions of the related Council of Europe Conventions.
(b) Controls on specified material from cattle, similar to those which exist in the UK, are carried out in France, Ireland, the Netherlands and Portugal. France, the Netherlands and Spain have controls on specified material from sheep and goats.